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High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee Final Proposal by the DAC Chair High Level Panel on the Future of the Development Assistance Committee Final proposal by the DAC Chair Mary Robinson – Chair Mary Robinson is President of the Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Elders and the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President of the United States Barack Obama. In May 2016 Mary was appointed by the UN Secretary General as his Special Envoy on El Niño and Climate. She sits on the advisory board of Sustainable Energy For All (SE4All) and is also a member of the Lead Group of the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement. Between 2013 and 2015 Mary served as the UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy in two roles; first for the Great Lakes region of Africa and then on Climate Change. A former President of the International Commission of Jurists and former chair of the Council of Women World Leaders she was President and founder of Realizing Rights: The Ethical Globalization Initiative from 2002-2010 and served as Honorary President of Oxfam International from 2002-2012. Mary Robinson serves as Patron of the Board of the Institute of Human Rights and Business, is an honorary member of The B Team, in addition to being a board member of several organisations including the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and the European Climate Foundation. She serves as Chancellor of the University of Dublin since 1998. Mary’s memoir, Everybody Matters was published in September 2012. Michael Anderson Michael Anderson CB is Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Global Development. From 2013 to 2016 he was CEO of the Children's Investment Fund Foundation, a UK philanthropy focused on the well-being of children in Africa and South Asia. He was previously the Special Envoy for Prime Minister Cameron on the UN Development Goals, and the UK policy lead on development issues leading up to the UK-hosted G8 summit in June 2013. He served in the UK Department for International Development for twelve years, where he was Director General of Policy and Global Programmes after leading programmes in the India, Middle East, on conflict prevention, and the rule of law. He has previously served as a Commissioner on the UN Commission for Life-Saving Commodities, a member of the Family Planning 2020 Reference Group, and co-chair of the DAC-UNDP-WB Joint Learning and Advisory Group on Difficult Partnerships. Before joining DFID, he was the Director of Studies at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, a policy think tank and training centre, and a Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 2000, he cofounded Bazian Ltd., a company that specializes in statistical products for evidence- based medicine. From 1988 to 2002 he worked with a series of law firms providing advice on cross-border litigation, international disputes, human rights, trade law, and environmental law. Mr. Anderson holds degrees in political science, social anthropology, and law from the universities of London, Oxford, and Washington. He was awarded the President's Medal at the University of Washington and was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. He is a Board member for the Global Innovation Fund, the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, the Power of Nutrition, and the Open Society Foundations Fiscal Governance Advisory Board. Alicia Bárcena Ms. Bárcena assumed office as the Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) on 1 July 2008. She had previously served as the Under-Secretary-General for Management at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Chef de Cabinet and Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the former Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan. Alicia Bárcena held the post of Deputy Executive Secretary and Director of ECLAC’s Environment and Human Settlements Division. Prior to her time at ECLAC, Ms. Bárcena served as Co-ordinator of the Latin American and Caribbean Sustainable Development Programme of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), responsible for the Environmental Citizenship Project at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Alicia Bárcena holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology, and holds a Master degree in Public Administration from Harvard University. Emma Bonino Emma Bonino is a former Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs. She also served as Vice-Chair of the Italian Senate. She has been Minister for International Trade and European Affairs. First elected to the Italian Chamber of Deputies in 1976, she has served either in the Italian or in the European Parliament. Between 1994 and 1999, she was EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid, Fisheries, Consumer Policy, Consumer Health Protection and Food Safety. As a Commissioner, she confronted the major man-made crises of the 1990s, which resulted in millions of refugees and displaced persons, including in the Great Lakes Region and in the Balkans. Emma Bonino spent four years in Egypt, where she was a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the American University of Cairo. As part of her work in the region, in January 2004, she headed the political process that led to the Sana’a InterGovernmental Regional Conference on Democracy, Human Rights and the Role of the ICC. Since 2003, she has also been campaigning against female genital mutilations and for the adoption of UNGA Resolution banning this practice worldwide. Her conviction that the rule of law is a pre-requisite for the protection of vulnerable people finds expression in her commitment to the development and strengthening of the international criminal justice system, with the establishment of the International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda, and for the establishment of the ICC. She is co-Chair of the European Council on Foreign Relations. Luisa Dias Diogo Former Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Mozambique. Luísa Diogo was Prime Minister of Mozambique from 2004-2010, she was the country´s first female Prime Minister. Before becoming Prime Minister In her Country she served as Minister of Planning and Finances for five years. During her turner she led the process of Economic Reforms and transformation that required several changes in the delivery of support from the International Community to Mozambican Budget. As a Minister of Planning of Finances, she had the opportunity to interact with International partners including the OECD Countries. Recently Diogo has focused on the High Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Future of the African Development Fund, she is also serving as a Deputy Chair of the African Foundation for alternative resources to Finance the African Union. Jean-Christophe Donnellier Jean-Christophe Donnellier is the current Chairman of the board of Expertise France: the French agency in charge of international technical cooperation. Here, he is in charge of coordinating French expertise in multilateral and bilateral programs in partner countries, including fragile states and crisis and post-crisis contexts. As French interministerial coordinator for technical cooperation, he is also working at fostering cooperation with development banks, other implementing agencies and private bodies, national and foreign. Mr. Donnellier has chaired between 2014 and 2015, Eunida: the European network for the implementation of agencies in the field of technical cooperation (including GIZ, FFIAP, BTC…). Previously, Jean-Christophe Donnellier worked as Minister Counselor at the French delegation to the OECD from 2011 to 2014, where he was the French DAC delegate, and in 2013 he was elected vice chairman of the Development Assistance Committeee. Appointed Undersecretary in charge of external relations in February 2007, he has worked as a close counselor to Christine Lagarde, then Minister for economy and Anne-Marie Idrac Minister in charge of external trade, on international and bilateral economic issues. During his tenure, he also became the French representative to the European Committee in charge of trade policy, which he chaired when France gained the presidency of the European Council in 2008. Jean-Christophe Donnellier was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1959. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (1980) and ENSAE (1984). He is the father of three: Marion, Margaux and Arthur Douglas Frantz Deputy Secretary-General (DSG) Douglas Frantz took up his duties at the OECD on 2 November 2015. DSG Frantz is former US Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs and also worked for then-Senator John Kerry as chief investigator and deputy staff director of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He was previously a newspaper reporter and editor for more than 35 years. As DSG, he actively contributes to the strategic direction of the OECD’s development agenda, notably in the context of supporting countries in the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030, in cooperation with the United Nations. In addition to focusing on OECD’s regional initiatives in South East Asia, the MENA region, Latin America and Africa, he oversees the Organisation's global relations portfolio. Heidi Hautala Heidi Hautala is a Member of the European Parliament and former Minister for International Development and State Ownership Steering of Finland (2011-2013). Currently she is the Vice-President of her group (Greens/EFA) and Co-President of the Euronest Parliamentary Assembly (Eastern Partnership). She is a member of the Development and Legal Affairs Committees and former chair of the Subcommittee on Human Rights. In addition, to the ongoing parliamentary term, she was also an MEP during the years 1995-2003 and 2009-2011. She was previously also a Member of the Finnish Parliament (1991-1995) and a presidential candidate for the Finnish Green Party in 2000 and 2006. Oh Joon Oh Joon is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Republic of Korea to the United Nations in New York.
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